Monday, May 26, 2008

Locify is open - enables anybody to create location aware services for anyone

What Company Is Offering:
Locify is free application for common mobile phone. It can use phone's internal GPS or connected bluetooth GPS or it is fairly usable even without GPS at all.

And Locify is open - enables anybody to create location aware services for anyone. It is as easy as creating web pages.

How It Works:

Locify client is standard Java application for mobile phones (J2ME). These applications are distributed in Java Archive files (jar extension). One single archive contains the whole application and is binary. However, there is also Java Archive Descriptor (.jad) file, which is not needed for installation, but can be used to enhance user experience. Locify's jad file contains digital signature, allowing users to install Locify as trusted application and can be used as source of preinstalled services.

A preinstalled service or "link" is basically shortcut to installation. It has special icon and when you activate it, Locify downloads welcome message located on URL at which this shortcut is pointing. If you decide to confirm installation of specified service, installation link is replaced by standard service icon.

More at:http://www.locify.com/

Write Match, a transparent, seamless and convenient service that provides writers with access to the best writing and editing assignments from around

What Company is Offering:
Chillifreeze.com is a group website of Chillibreeze Solutions Pvt Ltd, one of India’s leading content and design providers.
Write Match, a transparent, seamless and convenient service that provides writers with access to the best writing and editing assignments from around the globe.

Complete transparency in the bidding process and direct communication with the client ensures the elimination of middlemen. Write Match handles the financial aspect thereby allowing writers to focus on their writing, rather than the logistics.

How It Works:
This service allows clients to fix the price for their projects and communicate directly with writers on their projects, thereby offering a higher degree of control on the process and deliverables. Clients can post their project in one step using a simple form on Chillifreeze.Clients will be able to outsource content development to freelance writers at lower costs without the high commissions normally charged by agencies and intermediaries.

Chillifreeze’s parent company Chillibreeze with a client base and writer network already running into thousands plans to use the Write Match service to tap into a wider audience and service clientele from industries and domains beyond its core areas. Write Match is perfect for writers because it does not charge writers for connections or bids, unlike some other freelance marketplaces.

More at:http://www.chillifreeze.com/

Whereareyou.in

What Company Is Offering:
Whereareyou.in is a platform for all the people to stay in touch with each other. It provides a way to be in contact with the people from your past. The idea of bringing all the people together has
made this site.

How It Works:
Here you can locate your missing friends, colleagues, neighbours, relatives or anyone who changed heir mobile numbers. Anyone who is looking for missing persons can use this site.To keep in contact and give your details to someone who is missing you, you need to register in this site.

You can enter the known mobile number of the person you are searching and click on the button. You will get the present mobile number of the person. You can get the personal details provided the person has chosen public for his personal profile during registration.

This is to for the users to make sure they don't lose contact when the mobile number is changed. And Here your mobile number is shown only to the people who know your earlier mobile number. This way it ensures complete privacy.

More atwww.Whereareyou.in

Grant Gopher is offered to anyone interested in finding grant funding

What Company Is Offering:
Grant Gopher is the service that sends you new grant announcements every week only in the areas you request! Your personal Deadline Calendar is updated daily utilizing sources for federal grants, state grants, community foundations, private foundations and corporate giving programs.

This service is offered to anyone interested in finding grant funding. While there are fewer grants available for individuals or small businesses, GrantGopher.com does incorporate them in the database. Grant awards range from $300 into the millions, and are included from every source available, including community, family, and corporate foundations, as well as departments of local, county, state and federal government agencies.

How It Works:

Once you have identified a grant that is a good match, click on the live link they provide to you - this will take you directly to the grantor's funding guidelines and application. Read the guidelines carefully (several times)! Once you decide to proceed with the application, be sure to follow all the directions set forth by the grantor.

More at:http://www.grantgopher.com/

NeighborCity is an unbiased real estate search engine

What Company Is Offering:
NeighborCity is an unbiased real estate search engine built with real estate buyers and sellers in mind. Their goal is to help you find the perfect home for your next move, locate your ideal second home or to help you compare your home to others in your neighborhood when considering whether to sell your home and how to price it for sale.



How Is It Different:

Most of the other real estate websites will only show you listings they obtained directly from a broker. They often do not include all available properties in a given area and sometimes limit the amount of property data and images they provide their end users. Many accept advertising fees from brokers and agents in return for preferred placement on their Web sites. NeighborCity.com is completely free to use and does not accept advertising dollars so that you have an uncluttered real estate shopping experience.

Instead of partnering with existing real estate brokers or agents, their approach is to stay completely independent so that they can maintain an impartial view on your local real estate market, your neighborhood and your home or next purchase. Instead of listing only certain properties or providing an incomplete view of the market, our technology integrates directly with your local MLS (multiple listing service) to ensure that a search at NeighborCity.com brings you literally every listing available on the market (that is listed with a broker/real estate agent).

More at:http://www.neighborcity.com/

Vantagetrade is a Stock Analysis Portal

What Company Is Offering:
Vantagetrade is a Stock Analysis Portal. They provide you with Daily Stock Picks and timely Buy and Sell Signals for any Stock on BSE, NSE, FTSE, NASDAQ and NYSE Exchanges.

Vantagetrade brings forth easy to understand Buy and Sell signals directly on the charts, for its users. The Signals work on scientifically proven and proprietary algorithms that follows the trend and alerts you when there is an upward or downward movement in the stock.

How It Works:

Log in to your account. Click on Portfolio link on the top right of the page.Click on Add to Portfolio to add stocks. Search for the stock of your choice.Click on the get Buy and Sell Signals button to view the chart.Click on the get chart button to view the chart. You get 'Buy and Sell Chart' AND 'Analysis and Suggestion'.
OR
Choose any Stock from the Stock Picks section. You get 'Buy and Sell Signal Chart' AND 'Analysis and Suggestion'.
You could either Invest or Exit as the trend changes. You get early exit signals for upcoming Bear Phases. On the fly analysis for any stock. Receive instant alerts via email.

The strength of a signal is computed by the system with real time or current market data and displayed in the suggestion window. The strength of a daily signal is indicative of how dependable the signal is or how susceptible it is to change. The value attributed to the signal strength is applicable to that bar only.

More at:http://www.vantagetrade.com/

StrikeIron provides an on-demand Web-based infrastructure for delivering business data to any Internet-connected system

What Company Is Offering:
StrikeIron provides an on-demand Web-based infrastructure for delivering business data to any Internet-connected system, including Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, Web sites, mashups, spreadsheets or core enterprise systems.

Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, StrikeIron was founded by veteran entrepreneurs with more than fifty years of combined experience in building successful technology companies.

Unique Features:
* StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace.
* StrikeIron IronCloud.
* Tools to Make Data Integration Easy.

StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace

The Marketplace is sophisticated Software as a Service data distribution engine that greatly reduces the complexity for developers and business users who want to integrate live data from any number of sources. The Marketplace is built on top of a technology platform that provides a consistent interface across many XML-based Web services from multiple, diverse sources. This allows customers and partners to customize and integrate external data sources and additional external functionality into enterprise, Web, and composite applications. Currently, StrikeIron provides over 127 live data sources and business functions from organizations such as D&B, Cortera (formerly eCredit) Gale, MapQuest, Midnight Trader, Tax Data Systems, NASDAQ, The Sports Network, USPS, and Zacks.

Customers who subscribe through the StrikeIron Marketplace have instant access to a rich set of functionality and data and can take advantage of more flexible choices of protocols, simplified sign-on, simplified billing and accounting, flexible pricing alternatives, and integrated tools and services to accelerate their utilization.
StrikeIron IronCloud

StrikeIron launched its IronCloud platform as a commercial offering in 2008. It is the only comprehensive Web services Delivery Platform that opens up new channels for data distribution and consumption through Web services. Enterprises of all sizes can now reduce the cost, complexity and challenges of managing data distribution, including metering, monitoring, and authentication, and concentrate their focus on making information easier to access and use.

IronCloud expands the application of this infrastructure beyond subscription-based Web service usage. Companies that want to leverage the same Web service delivery platform to externalize their own data or services to the general public for use in applications, mashups, mobile devices, and Web sites can take advantage of our "industrial strength Web service onboarding" capabilities. They can have services live and available on the Web for use in a very short period of time. This allows waves of innovators to build on top of the service provider's offering and deliver valuable real-time analytics back to the service provider about that usage so the offerings can be optimized.

StrikeIron offers a wide variety of Products and Tools to make the data easy to integrate and immediately useful. Product include SOA Express for Excel, an easy-to-use tool that lets users do drag-and-drop integration of Web services directly into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as well as Web Services Analyzer which gives users faster understanding of internal or external Web services with a mouse click!

How Is Market Of That Kind Of Company:

StrikeIron is the first mover as a Web services on-demand provider, with a projected market potential of $4.6 billion dollars in 2013, according to Forrester Research. Poised to help redefine the Web, StrikeIron is the leading innovator in the data-as-a-service (DaaS) space, and is positioned to become the primary data provider to next generation Web-oriented applications, including applications built using platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.

More at:http://www.strikeiron.com/

NowPublic is a participatory news network

What Company Is Offering:

NowPublic is a participatory news network which mobilizes an army of reporters to cover the events that define our world. In twelve short months, the company has become one of the fastest growing news organizations with thousands of reporters in over 140 countries. During Hurricane Katrina, NowPublic had more reporters in the affected area than most news organizations have on their entire staff.

NowPublic Technologies, Inc. is a Vancouver-based company.

More at:http://www.nowpublic.com/

HitLinkz in an online utility that aspires to be your one-stop place on the internet for all your link needs

What Company is Offering:
HitLinkz in an online utility that aspires to be your one-stop place on the internet for all your link needs.

With HitLinkz you can explore the famous links across various categories, you can add those famous links to your HitList for quick reference in the future and you can vote on the links to make it a Hit or Miss.


How It Works:
HitLinkz provides its users with a comprehensive list of categories and links across those categories. Users can recommend new categories to be covered by HitLinkz and can recommend appropriate links to those categories. Other users vote on the links to make it to the HitList, which is a list of Top 10 links for that category. HitLinkz strongly believes that by letting the users decide whether a link is a Hit or Miss it truly can bring to the audience (users) the links that are famous and appropriate at a given time.

More at:http://www.hitlinkz.com/

eGenie.co.uk is a free, easy-to-use service that helps you find the cheapest and best service provider foreveryday odd jobs

What Company is Offering:
eGenie.co.uk is a free, easy-to-use service that helps you find the cheapest and best service provider to complete all those general, everyday odd jobs that you never get round to doing!



How It Works:
eGenie.co.uk is basically a reverse auction. Simply post an assignment detailing what work should be done and the service providers will try to out bid each other in order to win the job. You decide of course which service provider receives your assignment and in this manner you always get the cheapest and the best. If you are not satisfied with any of the offers you are under no obligation to allocate the assignment, thus saving yourself time money and patience.

eGenie.co.uk is not a search engine nor is it a classifieds directory. eGenie.co.uk is better!

Whether you need private tuition, want to get a dent in your car fixed, need a new haircut or you are looking for someone who can lay laminate flooring, at eGenie.co.uk you wi’ll find exactly want you want, at a price you want to pay.

More at:http://www.egenie.co.uk/

Search using keyboard shortcuts with Katapulco!

What Company Is Offering:
Katapulco lets you search more efficiently (therefore enhancing your productivity) by using a series of keyboard shortcuts to query the most popular search engines and Internet databases.

At Katapulco, they believe that using the keyboard whenever possible is much faster and productive than using the mouse, especially when it comes to searching the Internet. Imagine searching Google Maps, the Internet Movie Database or Wikipedia from one page without ever clicking on anything and just by adding "gm" (Google Maps), "i" (IMDB) or "w" (Wikipedia) at the end of your queries!

How Is It Different:


The Firefox search box defaults to Google but also offers six other options, including Answers.com, Yahoo and eBay. However, the disadvantage is that you have to use the mouse to select them. In addition to that, once you use another search engine (for example Amazon.com), your latest selection remains the default search engine, so you will have to select Google or Yahoo again to return to a general search. That's a lot of clicking!

Unlike the others, Katapulco always returns to a general search. And in case you wish to use another search engine, it’s really easy and hassle free! All you need to do is type the desired search engine's keyboard shortcut, without leaving the keyboard! They believe that it is a perfect solution for people who prefer to enhance their personal productivity while keeping their hands on the keyboard.

More at:http://www.katapulco.com/

Qwika.com, a wiki search engine

What Company Is Offering:
Qwika.com, a wiki search engine. The technology is designed from the ground up to work with wiki-based content and has a number of unique features of interest to researchers and Wikipedia editors. It is the only search engine to index machine translated content, so that users may search for terms in their own language and see results translated from English.

"Wikipedia's growth in English is well documented, but other languages lag far behind. The next biggest is German, roughly a third of the size of the English one. Spanish is a mere tenth of the size" says Luke Metcalfe, founder of the site. "There is thus a massive gap in the market."

The resultant content is machine translated, so it contains imperfections, but are still much better than no article at all and further, provide a starting point for editors to translate manually into their own language. Languages included are German, French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Korean, Chinese and Russian.

In addition, some country-specific topics are covered best in their native language. Qwika makes this content available to English speakers, rolling it all into the one index. Articles from all 11 languages are included in the English language version.

The engine also includes WikiTravel and aims to include all sizeable wikis. "Wikis are cropping up on a variety of topics and approaches to community. We'd like to see this diversity flourish while still providing the user with a central location for such public encyclopedia-style content".

More at:http://www.qwika.com/